As the title says, been waiting forever to get these final orders - finally got them today and to say I am living a nightmare right now would be an understatement.
My proposed minute of orders were fairly in line with the ICL, which stepped up time to a 50/50 physical custody arrangement when our daughter started school.
The mothers proposed minute of orders were significantly far away from what myself and the ICL had proposed, to the point where no one in a million years would have inagined they would have even been entertained. Well.. it seems they have been
The orders have in a sense stepped backwards in time and culminate in basically an every other weekend Saturday to Monday morning arrangement.
There are detailed reasons for judgement of course, but they are heavily bias and ultra conservative to put it best.
I understand that for appeal there must be some kind of legal grounds for that, but the ultra conservative and in some instances, assumptions of fact that the judge makes (eg. that the orders are suitable as the mother "says" she intends to live with her parents until our child is of school age - which she may or may not... ) have left me in a position of the real minimum end of "meaningful/substantial/significant time" on a long term basis and what one could view as even a decrease in time I currently have (which is one overnight a week and two 9-3 days).
Sorry if this comes across a bit ranty/over excited, I've literally only received the orders this morning and I'm just absolutely flawed.
My proposed minute of orders were fairly in line with the ICL, which stepped up time to a 50/50 physical custody arrangement when our daughter started school.
The mothers proposed minute of orders were significantly far away from what myself and the ICL had proposed, to the point where no one in a million years would have inagined they would have even been entertained. Well.. it seems they have been
The orders have in a sense stepped backwards in time and culminate in basically an every other weekend Saturday to Monday morning arrangement.
There are detailed reasons for judgement of course, but they are heavily bias and ultra conservative to put it best.
I understand that for appeal there must be some kind of legal grounds for that, but the ultra conservative and in some instances, assumptions of fact that the judge makes (eg. that the orders are suitable as the mother "says" she intends to live with her parents until our child is of school age - which she may or may not... ) have left me in a position of the real minimum end of "meaningful/substantial/significant time" on a long term basis and what one could view as even a decrease in time I currently have (which is one overnight a week and two 9-3 days).
Sorry if this comes across a bit ranty/over excited, I've literally only received the orders this morning and I'm just absolutely flawed.